Mark Finchem didn't disclose nearly $2,000 a month in pension benefits and a few businesses in which he was involved from the time he took office.
Arizona Rep. Mark Finchem failed for years to follow state laws requiring elected officials to report their sources of income and business ties.
If elected, Finchem would be in charge of overseeing the financial disclosures and campaign contribution reports required of every elected state official. Finchem regularly listed as sources of income a real estate brokerage firm where he worked as a sales agent and a medical diagnostic company that employed his wife as a scientist.
Disclosures are critical to building trust in the democratic process and are one of the few ways the public has for evaluating politicians, said John Pelissero, a senior scholar in government ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Records obtained by The Arizona Republic show Finchem worked as public safety officer in Kalamazoo, Michigan from 1978 to 1999, serving as a paramedic, firefighter and law enforcement officer.
Records show he routinely disclosed being an officer in a now-defunct company he started called readmyrear.com, which made banners for the backs of vehicles. Finchem beginning in 2019 also reported his interest in a company called Pathway Research and Education, which operated out of his home.
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